Turks anxious about Stallone’s intension to shoot a film based on the `40
Days of Musa Dagh’

ArmRadio.am
29.12.2006 14:45

Hollywood actor Sylvester Stallone’s statement on shooting a film
based on the 40 Days of Musa Dagh’ novel by Austrian writer Franz
Werfel coincided with the day when Turkish press informed about the
death of the musical impresario Ahmid Ertegan. It is characteristic
that in 1930s Ertegan’s father served as Turkish Ambassador in the US
and managed to prevent the attempts to shoot a film on `Musa Dagh.’

The Armenian Genocide Forum told `Armenpress’ that Turkish
organizations have raised a `great hysteria’ and are sending letters
of protest to Stallone. Chairman of the Turkish `Against the Armenian
Genocide’ Association noted that `very often cinema is used for
propaganda purposes, and this time also Armenians intend to use this
opportunity.’ Stallone has declared that the film will be a whole
epic workabout the destruction of a whole civilization. `It will tell
about a sensitive topic, which they have been killing for many
years. Unfortunately, it will not have a happy end,’ he noted.